An EMHC psychiatrist recently stated, "Of course, not one single patient in this place wants to be here..." For me, and perhaps for most people at EMHC (patients or staff), this may seem like unremarkable common sense. Nobody wants to be locked up in a state nuthouse, right?
But... what of the words on that decorative bronze plaque prominently displayed for the public as they walk through the security magnetometer and get "wanded" by a stern, uniformed guard in the Forensic Program Building lobby (??):
THIS IS A HOSPITAL DEDICATED BY THE STATE OF ILLINOIS TO THE WELFARE OF ITS PEOPLE FOR THEIR RELIEF AND RESTORATION - A PLACE OF HOPE FOR THE HEALING OF MIND BODY AND SPIRIT WHERE MANY FIND HEALTH AND HAPPINESS AGAIN
Somehow, it just seems that such a wonderful "hospital" would not inspire such universal desire to not be there. Maybe it can be said that nobody really likes being in the hospital; but people who are really sick are generally thankful and appreciative for good hospitals where they are well treated. In my decades of experience in EMHC, there are no such thanks and there is no such appreciation from the psychiatric "patients" who are held at EMHC, ever. There is only desperate desire to get out; the "relief and restoration... hope... health and happiness again" only comes from getting the hell out.
If that plaque in the lobby were truthful, it might tell the public:
THIS IS A HORRIBLE PLACE OF PSYCHIATRIC SLAVERY THAT YOU PAY YOUR TAXES FOR IN ILLINOIS TO CONFINE AND DISABLE PEOPLE YOU ARE AFRAID OF - A PLACE THAT VIOLATES FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMEANS BOTH MEDICINE AND THE LAW
Then the psychiatrist's categorical statement about not a single person wanting to be there would make sense.
He would probably want to find a different job, too.
During the Great Depression in the 1930s, there were thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of people from the deep South who became psychotic and were placed in mental hospitals. In 1937 scientists discovered that vitamin B-3 was needed by most psychiatric patients. The U.S. public health officer, Dr. Goldberger, started giving a little B-3 to some of the hospitalized patients. Many recovered and were sent home. When he increased the dosage of B-3, many more recovered and were sent home. However, the amounts given to these patients was quite small because the vitamin was new back then and Dr. Goldberger didn't want to overdo it. Had he increased the dosages to amounts we commonly buy OTC in health food stores today, many authorities believe almost all the patients would have recovered.
ReplyDeleteThe disease conquered by Vitamin B-3 is "pellagra."
For more information, please read "Goldberg's War" by Alan Kraut.
Abram Hoffer, MD was a Canadian psychiatrist who continued the work of treating his patients with B-3, usually the niacinamide form instead of the niacin form which is known to cause the "Niacin Flush."
Dr. Hoffer spent more than 50 years trying to get the Am Psych Ass'n to recognize the effectiveness of B-3 for schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders but the APA refused—and continued raking in a LOT of money in the form of "grants" from pharmaceutical companies. All they had to do was keep people from learning about the B-3 treatment so they could continue to make a lot of money. They were quite successful back then.
I was there, in person, at an "orthomolecular" conference around 2006 in Vancouver, BC when Dr. Hoffer said almost all cases of schizophrenia are, in reality, pellagra. That's why B-3 cures so many of these patients.
Vitamin B-3 is what helped my "ADHD" son enormously. He had been too hyperactive for me to have any confidence he could take the capsules three times a day so I took him for injections from our naturopathic doctor (I think it was 2 injections per week for either 3 or 6 weeks. (Sorry I don't remember how long the treatment lasted— it was almost 30 years ago.)
Years later, when my other son became "incurably" psychotic, I took him to see Dr. Hoffer. The B-3 treatment didn't help. I learned it was because my son's histamine level was too high and that I'd have to lower it first and then give him the B-3. He did so well by getting his histamine level lowered that I basically forgot all about the B-3.
Anyway, I hope all this info helps someone as they fight against the quackery known as American psychiatry.
Linda Santini, author of "Goodbye, Quacks—Hello, Homeopathy!"